I would say to [Chinese government], You don't need Tibet really. You don't need all the problems Tibet creates for you. It's so small, so far away. Give them their religious freedom and I know that they wouldn't misuse it.

Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.

Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference.

But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come to care. He tells the story, out of infinite pain, partly to honor the dead, but also to warn the living - to warn the living that it could happen again and that it must never happen again. Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all. (vi)

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.